Urban Expansion in Colombian Cities

El Tiempo, Colombia's biggest newspaper, wrote an article titled "Así fue la expansión de algunas ciudades en los últimos 20 años", which featured the Colombia Atlas of Urban Expansion. In the article, the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management is credited for its work on collecting the data and conducting the calculations that led to the production of the Colombia Atlas.

The report, which studied 106 municipalities and 14 contiguous agglomerations (urban areas that contain several territories and are considered a single city) of different sizes and regions of the country, was based on calculations done by New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management, using the DANE sample's territorial population projections and data collected from satellite images.